Object data
wood and brass
height 102.5 cm × length 4.8 cm × width 3.5 cm
anonymous
Model of a Made Mast
Netherlands, c. 1819
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-138-1
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a round mast with an octagonal head, hounds with bibbs, furring, rubbing paunch and side fishes.
The mast itself consists of an octagonal spindle and eight side fishes. The head is made up of the spindle alone. The parts are held together with mast hoops. A number of short planks encircle the mast, forming a flat furring to the front, the bibbs on the sides and half an octagon at the back. The side fishes also form the back piece of the bibbs. A rubbing paunch is set to the front of the mast.
This model represents the first mainmast1 of the 74-gun ship of the line Willem de Eerste (Pieter van Zwijndregt Paulusz (1711-1790), Rotterdam 1782-85, renamed Brutus in 1795 and Braband in 1806, broken up in 1820). This mast was declared unfit and replaced by the one represented by model NG-MC-138-2 in 1819.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 138
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Made Mast, Netherlands, c. 1819', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243949
(accessed 29 December 2024 08:20:04).